Simplification of Arabic Masterpieces for Extensive Reading: A Project Overview
Author(s) -
Muhamed Al Khalil,
Nizar Habash,
Hind Saddiki
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.109
Subject(s) - computer science , arabic , reading (process) , natural language processing , state (computer science) , natural (archaeology) , artificial intelligence , linguistics , programming language , philosophy , archaeology , history
We describe the motivation and outline of a project for the simplification of Arabic masterpieces for extensive reading, a collaboration between researchers in Arabic literature, pedagogy and natural language processing, with the purpose of formulating simplification guidelines for Arabic fiction targeting school-aged learners; then using them to guide human simplification efforts with support from state-of-the-art computational natural language processing technology.
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